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Great spangled fritillary butterfly spreading wings. In a Connecticut flower garden, summer. Copy space on right.

Macrophotography of a Delaware Skipper (Anatrytone logan) on a thistle flower.

Red spotted admiral butterfly sitting on spring thistle

Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

The common blue butterfly Polyommatus icarus on a Echinácea purpúrea flower gathering nectar on a sunny summer day

Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

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Great spangled fritillary on joe-pye weed in summer, top or dorsal view, showing the pattern on the back of the wings. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box. Fritillary is also a checkered flower.

$The hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a species of hawk moth found across temperate regions of Eurasia. The species is named for its similarity to hummingbirds, as they feed on the nectar of tube-shaped flowers using their long proboscis while hovering in the air; this resemblance is an example of convergent evolution. \nLife cycle:\nTwo or more broods are produced each year. The adult may be encountered at any time of the year, especially in the south of the range, where there may be three or four broods. It overwinters as an adult in a crevice among rocks, trees, and buildings. On very warm days it may emerge to feed in mid-winter. Unlike other moths, they have no sexual dimorphism in the size of their antennal lobes.\nHabitat and host plants:\nHummingbird hawk-moths can be easily seen in gardens, parks, meadows, bushes, and woodland edge, where the preferred food plants grow (honeysuckle, red valerian and many others). \nTheir larvae usually feed on bedstraws or madders (Rubia) but have been recorded on other Rubiaceae and Centranthus, Stellaria, and Epilobium. \nAdults are particularly fond of nectar-rich flowers with a long and narrow calyx, since they can then take advantage of their long proboscis and avoid competition from other insects. Flowers with longer tubes typically present the feeding animal a higher nectar reward. Proboscis length is thought to have been evolutionarily impacted by the length of flower feeding tubes.] Examples of such plants include Centranthus, Jasminum, Buddleia, Nicotiana, Primula, Viola, Syringa, Verbena, Echium, Phlox, and Stachys. \nDistribution:\nThe hummingbird hawk-moth is distributed throughout the northern Old World from Portugal to Japan, but it breeds mainly in warmer climates (southern Europe, North Africa, and points east). Three generations are produced in a year in Spain. \n\nThis Species can be seen in different Habitats (inc. Gardens) in the Netherlands in Summer Season.$

A butterfly sits on a thistle drinking nectar while collecting pollen before moving on to the next thistle.

A Fire-rim Tortoiseshell butterfly, gathers pollen from a summer lilac flowers in autumn.

Butterfly with orange, brown, white and blue colours and black spots sitting on violet field scabious flower growing in a meadow. Blurry green background. Summer evening in the nature.

An image of a Red Admiral feeding on a thistle head

Great spangled fritillary, fluttering over summer wildflowers (joe-pye weed) as it feeds, with the focus on the eyes and head. The butterfly's striking pattern inspires its name. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box.

Beautiful Orange Butterfly and Bees over Eryngium Alpinum, the alpine sea holly, alpine eryngo or queen of the Alps an herbaceous perennial plant in the family Apiaceae.

A close-up of a butterfly (scientific name Argynnis Aglaja) sits on a flower.

A small plant just blooming on the woodland floor.

The ringlet butterfly - Aphantopus hyperantus resting on Cirsium arvense the creeping thistle or field thistle

$Vanessa cardui is a very common migrant that arrives from Africa every summer. Numbers fluctuate annually, depending on the reproduction in Africa.\nThe species is most likely to be seen in open areas were the vegetation has a mosaic structure, such as waste land, fallow ground and pasture land.\nit uses various species of Carduus, Arctium and Cirsium both as larval food plant and as a source of nectar.\n\nThis is a common Migration Butterfly in the Netherlands.$

Hummingbird Moth searching for food in Eleven Mile Canyon Colorado

close up on ladybug and white butterfly on thistle flowers in meadow

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